A Port St. Lucie couple learned that their home was burglarized and their car torched while they were on vacation in Massachusetts, the Port St. Lucie Police Department said.George Andruk, 82, and his wife, Flora, 72, were vacationing in Bridgewater, Massachusetts, when someone burglarized their home. The burglar torched the couple’s car afterward, police said.Download app: iOS | AndroidFort Pierce police were called Tuesday to the 1200 block of Avenue Q to investigate a vehicle fire. When police arrived, the car was fully engulfed in flames. The car was identified as a gray 1992 Lincoln Town car that was stolen from the Andruks' home in Port St. Lucie.According to an incident report, the couple’s neighbor, Debra Bernadine Sill, 66, noticed that their home had been burglarized when she checked it at 4:30 p.m. Sunday and found the house in a disarray.She had last checked the home at 1 p.m. Saturday, the police report said. Vickie Hudlin, another neighbor, notified Sill that the Andruks' garage door was open. The women went to the home to close the garage door and saw that the family’s car was missing.According to police, the burglar used bodily force to open the door to the house and caused $200 in damage to the door frame. The burglar ransacked the house, moving mattresses in bedrooms, rifling through drawers and leaving them open and emptying a jewelry box on the floor, the police report said. Drawers in the bathrooms were also ransacked.According to police, the burglar stole a 46-inch Samsung television valued at $1,000 from the living room. The burglar also stole the couple’s Lincoln, valued at $3,000. The burglar disconnected a battery charger from the vehicle’s battery.The couple is still in Massachusetts, so it is not known what other property was stolen, the police report said.Police are investigating the crime and asked anyone with information to call the Port St. Lucie Police Department at 772-871-5001 or Treasure Coast Crime Stoppers at 1-800-273 TIPS.

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. —

A Port St. Lucie couple learned that their home was burglarized and their car torched while they were on vacation in Massachusetts, the Port St. Lucie Police Department said.

George Andruk, 82, and his wife, Flora, 72, were vacationing in Bridgewater, Massachusetts, when someone burglarized their home. The burglar torched the couple’s car afterward, police said.

Fort Pierce police were called Tuesday to the 1200 block of Avenue Q to investigate a vehicle fire. When police arrived, the car was fully engulfed in flames. The car was identified as a gray 1992 Lincoln Town car that was stolen from the Andruks' home in Port St. Lucie.

According to an incident report, the couple’s neighbor, Debra Bernadine Sill, 66, noticed that their home had been burglarized when she checked it at 4:30 p.m. Sunday and found the house in a disarray.

She had last checked the home at 1 p.m. Saturday, the police report said. Vickie Hudlin, another neighbor, notified Sill that the Andruks' garage door was open. The women went to the home to close the garage door and saw that the family’s car was missing.

According to police, the burglar used bodily force to open the door to the house and caused $200 in damage to the door frame. The burglar ransacked the house, moving mattresses in bedrooms, rifling through drawers and leaving them open and emptying a jewelry box on the floor, the police report said. Drawers in the bathrooms were also ransacked.

According to police, the burglar stole a 46-inch Samsung television valued at $1,000 from the living room. The burglar also stole the couple’s Lincoln, valued at $3,000. The burglar disconnected a battery charger from the vehicle’s battery.

The couple is still in Massachusetts, so it is not known what other property was stolen, the police report said.

Police are investigating the crime and asked anyone with information to call the Port St. Lucie Police Department at 772-871-5001 or Treasure Coast Crime Stoppers at 1-800-273 TIPS.